Being responsible is not always easy, especially when it comes to running a football club, where playing to the gallery offers vastly better short-term returns, and no doubt a rush of endorphins.
If your fans are engaged in an activity which regularly brings them to the attention of the courts, and your club into disrepute, it doesn’t matter what you think of the apparent offense. You may chant an offending song in the shower every morning month, but your only public comment on the matter can be to chastise and urge fans to desist.
Clubs in Scotland voted against what is known as strict liability. This means they are not held responsible for transgressions by their fans – and who wants to be held responsible for the actions of others who protected from personal liability by hiding in a crowd.
Part of the deal on not having strict liability is that clubs must demonstrate that they take all steps necessary to dissuade and educate their fans from carrying out criminal or regulatory offenses. It’s simply not possible for club to tell fans their illegal actions were justified, as this would place the club itself in the firing line.
The nonsense following the Scottish Cup final is all background noise as far as we are concerned, but be aware the contagion will spread beyond those you could consider highly dysfunctional operators.
Solving Kids Cancer in memory of Oscar Knox
Our own Bundoran Bhoy will run the Edinburgh Marathon on Sunday on behalf of Solving Kids Cancer. He has put in an enormous amount of work ahead of the event, for a cause which you are only too familiar with.
26 miles is a long way to run. You can give him some encouragement on his Just Giving page.
Good luck, Tommy.
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Rudi…,
Seriously, what I said, ask Greece
& don’t ever forget it!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL8wAG6_K8k
Sevco…..’We ur pure ragin, so we ur’
HH
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 28TH MAY 2016 7:09 PM
I’ve just come back from Lidl’s where I was goaded, but showed remarkable constraint by not running onto the road.
Such a degree of dignity and respect for oncoming vehicles means that you simply have to be one of ‘them’
Just a quick visit to wish my wee brother Bundoran Bhoy all the best for the marathon tomorrow in aid of Solving Kids Cancer and in memory of Wee Oscar.
Very proud of you T.
HH
Sevconians goaded by Hibs fans wearing Celtic scarfs:)
HH
The only reason I ask is, it won’t make any difference to my life or yours. The only people this will effect is them and there huge appetite for the persecution complex that fills there stadium every week.I couldn’t give a rats ring piece if they are the same club or if they cheated. We all know that they have been cheating for years and new cheats will follow old cheats sure as night follows day.
The real job and fight should be to try and stop the order from the weekly marching, of which must cost the largest city in the country a huge amount in lost revenue due to transport issues and police charges.
They are the same people with the same agenda and the same mind set as always.
The easiest thing in the world is to spot the problem, fixing the problem is the hard part.
Any road up how’s tricks and when are you back.
Same as it ever was,same as it ever was
AURORABOREALIS79 on 28TH MAY 2016 6:34 PM
!!BADA BING!! on 28TH MAY 2016 11:18 AM
Not wanting a songs debate,but I hope the ‘Brendan Rodgers fenian army’ chant,gets knocked on the head.
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Not wanting a Union debate but how about “Brendan Rodgers United Army”
Best reason for knocking it on the head is that our impartial media is sharpening its pes for the first rendering of it.
Glendaly’s
It is no just over a week since Hibs won the Cup
YEEEEHHHAAAAA CSC
Gary lineker ” Just want to ask you a question. Why is Simeone still with Madrid when so many big jobs have came up?” When did Ranieri leave Leicester?
Does Stewart Robertson’s admission that some hooligans are worse than other hooligans mean that MSM will drop the old wan’s as bad as the other line?
Under capitalism, man exploits man.
Under communism, it’s just the opposite.
– John Kenneth Galbraith
“Union Bear denies throwing a piano at Celtic scarf wearing sad fenian bastard Hibs youngster, in Somerville Drive, Mt. Florida”
STVNOT CSC
Hell’s bells do we need all this nonsense before the CL final?
New Sevco T-Shirts
‘Bring back hanging’
‘Ra Berrz say no to Dehumanisation’
‘It Wisnae us,..it wiz Chelsea fans’
‘We were goaded’
‘Whit dae ye want….The Billy Boys, or Chibbed’
HH
Quonno
“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.” Orwell was so right. God! if we were in this final there would be no need for pre match entertainment. That’s what we’d be for.
CELT55 on 28TH MAY 2016 7:43 PM
Hell’s bells do we need all this nonsense before the CL final?
Celtic not in it, couldn’t give a monkey’s about it.
All the best Bundoran bhoy..
Away to watch the final
HH
quonno on 28th May 2016 7:46 pm
Aye, but it could be us next season and it’s a real pain in the arse-:)
If you’re not watching the Champions League Final, grab a chair, pick it up, and hit yourself in the face with it.
BSR
Im doing both:)
HH
FourGreenFields, I’m sure Bundoran Bhoy will do well tomorrow, he has trained well.
All the best to you T.
Enjoy it mhate.
Vin..,
Open up the SFA to scrutiny and we’ve made a start, it’s got to start somewhere, piece by piece clean it up.
The SFA is a fair lump of the establishment bring it into the light publicly, give them nowhere to hide and they will have to face it, no more dirty little secrets, it’s a start anyway, better than sitting on yer arse doing nothing and moaning it will never change if yer no gonnae to try and chage it now is there.
No sure whan I’m back, just been offered a big job but as usual it’s all pie in the sky till the bucks are in yer tail.
Try get back July/Aug sometime.
God, this is exciting, and it has just started…….
Hope Mark Clattenburg doesn’t ruin this.
TGM
excellent ☺️
One of my earliest memories is going to the semi final v Atletico, so not a fan of them, but the other team are the Royal team, dilemma!
Hoping for a good .
Real throwing themselves to the floor like a certain Porto side.
THE GREEN MAN SAYS SACK THE BOARD on 28TH MAY 2016 7:43 PM
New Sevco T-Shirts
‘Bring back hanging’
‘Ra Berrz say no to Dehumanisation’
‘It Wisnae us,..it wiz Chelsea fans’
‘We were goaded’
‘Whit dae ye want….The Billy Boys, or Chibbed’
HH
Sponsored by “The Giro’ De Glesga”
RUDICANTFAIL…
Conservatism is brilliant until they can take no more…then start a war!
Neutral on this game, usually like the underdog to win but still after all these years can’t get over Athleticos barbarian tactics on that night.
Oh and Vin, I expect if successfull it will make a big difference to my life, free beer and envelopes full of bullets :)
Doc
He has put in a great effort for this mate .
Hope all goes well.
This could be the Mark Clattenburg final…
What a start to the game- pace, quality passing…direct routes to goal
Bale’s free kick swerving like crazy into the 6 yard line – not offside how did keeper stop it?
Don’t think they can keep it up, hope they do….
Bale is talented but has always dived. No respect for that kind of behaviour.
Surely Lee Wallace could make that Real team.
Surely.
Joey Barton will be gutted….he will be wishing now, that he waited for that call from Real:)
HH
Well as always not able to get CL on You Tube….. Any help appreciated…..
Hope both of these teams get beat in this game….
Atletico (not Athletico……nearly as annoying as standing behind someone asking for an eXpresso coffee)…I blame the goatshagging schools